Over the weekend, Facebook added a stalkerish feature called "Find Friends Nearby" to its mobile website; on Monday, it was gone. "Find Friends Nearby" let users of iOS and Android devices locate BFFs — and perhaps nBFFs (never BFFS) — who were within range.

Facebook Pulls Find Friends Nearby 'Test'killed the "Find Friends Nearby" feature only a day after it rolled out unannounced to some mobile users and under threat of a lawsuit from a company that claimed copyright infringement. [More from Mashable: ] , first called "Friendshake," was created in ...06/26/2012 - 11:01 am | View Link

Facebook Pulls Find Friends Nearby 'Test'Facebook killed the "Find Friends Nearby" feature only a day after it rolled out unannounced to some mobile users and under threat of a lawsuit from a company that claimed copyright infringement. Find Friends Nearby, first called "Friendshake," was created ...06/26/2012 - 7:03 am | View Link

Facebook pulls location-tracking featureFollowing a period of freak-out on the Internet on Monday, Facebook appears to have pulled a controversial feature that let the social network's users get a digital list of other Facebookers nearby. The "Find Friends Nearby" feature was not accessible in a ...06/26/2012 - 6:49 am | View Link

Facebook pulls Find Friends Nearby GPS-locator featureIt was kind of creepy, but it also had potential to be useful. But in the end it didn't matter because Facebook has pulled Find Friends Nearby as unceremoniously as it debuted it. After the feature was introduced to the world Sunday by one of the Facebook ...06/26/2012 - 4:05 am | View Link

Facebook pulls the plug on 'Find Friends Nearby'Less than 24 hours after it was discovered, Facebook says it has pulled the plug on the Find Friends Nearby feature. The company said the feature was being tested by Facebook engineers internally, and was never meant to be made public. ABC News confirmed ...06/25/2012 - 11:05 pm | View Link

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Super Mario 64 HD Remake!—In Unity. Just a couple of days after computer science student Erik Roystan Ross released a free recreation of the first level of Nintendo's 1996 Super Mario 64 in Unity, the game's original creator stepped in to put “No” in “N(intend)o.”
Ross, who released his high-definition version of the Bob-Omb Battlefield for play in a browser, or on a computer running Windows, Mac, or Linux, didn't have any intention of selling the game and made it available for free.
Still, Nintendo sent Content Delivery Network (CDN) Cloudflare a complaint under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) this week demanding that the fan recreation be taken down:
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The massive denial-of-service attacks that have intermittently shut down Github for more than five days is the work of hackers with control over China's Internet backbone, according to two technical reports published Tuesday that build a strong case that government authorities are at least indirectly responsible.
Github officials have said the torrent of junk data pummeling their servers is the biggest they have ever seen.

Arguing that Ohio’s casinos and racinos have not lived up to their original promises on tax revenue, Sen. Bill Coley said it’s time to take away their nontaxable promotional gaming credits. The West Chester Republican said Ohio casino operators have fallen well short of their promise to generate more than $500 million per year for Ohio schools and local governments, and have failed to come close to delivering on the 34,000 promised new jobs.

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